Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:56:13 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>, Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Roadmap for perl upgrades to STABLE? Message-ID: <20010104165613.A91031@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <3A547E37.846A303F@inpharmatica.co.uk>; from m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:44:23PM %2B0000 References: <200012260828.eBQ8SFF09546@gratis.grondar.za> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012270006380.2693-100000@browning.pennasoft.com> <20001226231547.R72273@elvis.mu.org> <3A547E37.846A303F@inpharmatica.co.uk>
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On Thu 2001-01-04 (13:44), Matthew Seaman wrote: > Bill Fumerola wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:08:53AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > > > > Not that I'm a fan of the GPL, but wouldn't importation of gmake > > > into the toolchain that gets installed by default help this problem > > > along enormously? > > > > What can it do that bmake can't? > > > > Automatically generate dependencies and then apply them as part of a higher > level target all in the same `make' invocation? ie. `make depend' can be a > sub-target of `make all'. That's about the only feature of gmake I've ever > used and missed having in BSD make. all: .depend ? (that is to say, that's what it sounds like, I'm probably not parsing what you mean properly.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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